Monday’s Mistake for February 22, 2021–Do You See the Clutter Word?

Monday’s Mistake for February 22, 2021–Do You See the Clutter Word?

Here’s this week’s Monday’s Mistake, a chance to learn how to avoid mistakes and strengthen your business writing through mini pop quizzes… I found this week’s example in a print magazine. Does anything about the sentence read or sound off to you? It is grammatically correct, so it’s not as if it has a mistake in it, but it does have an extra word that adds clutter. Do you see it? The word is “lengthier.” The writer already said the war was short-lived, so obviously the other conflicts were longer. That makes the word “lengthier”...